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Read Works: Frederick Douglass: From Slavery to Freedom
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks passage provides a brief biography of the abolitionist writer and speaker, Frederick Douglass. A paired passage, a vocabulary support sheet, a questions sheet, and an answers sheets are...
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Read Works: Transcontinental Railroads: Compressing Time and Space
[Free Registration/Login Required] Abridged from the full text located at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, this passage provides information about the development of the transcontinental railroad. Paired texts, a text...
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Read Works: Martha Washington Creates the Role of First Lady
[Free Registration/Login Required] This essay, borrowed from the full text located at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, provides biographical information about Martha Washington and her role as the First Lady of the...
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Read Works: Excerpt From "The Fifties": The Affluent Society
[Free Registration/Login Required] Abridged from the full text located at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, this passage provides information about economic wealth of Americans living during the 1950's. Paired texts are...
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Read Works: Coming to America: Ellis Island and New York City
[Free Registration/Login Required] This full text is borrowed from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and provides information about the history of Ellis Island and the first person account of the immigration experience....
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Read Works: The Doctrine of Discovery, 1493
[Free Registration/Login Required] Abridged from the full text located at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, this excerpt desribes the contents of the Papal Bull "Inter Caetera" issued by Pope Alexander VI. Paired texts...
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Read Works: Columbus Reports on His First Voyage, 1493
[Free Registration/Login Required] Abridged from the full text located at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, this passage provides a primary source and a discussion of Christopher Columbus' first voyage. Paired texts, a...
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Read Works: Be Careful With Medicines
[Free Registration/Login Required] This reading comprehension passage focuses on children learning to be safe with medicine and vocabulary words. It is followed by questions about the passage that include picture cues.
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Read Works: Passages: "Spinning Storms"
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about tornados written on the 2nd grade reading level. The text is followed by ten comprehension questions in multiple choice or extended response format. A link to answers is...
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Read Works: Antibiotics: Use Them Wisely
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage focuses on Antibiotics including who invented them, how they work, how germs can become resistant to them, and how to take them. It is followed by a comprehension question set.
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Read Works: The Ants and the Grasshopper
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a brief version of the Aesop's Fable "The Ants and the Grasshopper" which is followed by a comprehension question set.
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Read Works: William's Windmill by Kate Paixao
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is about what windmills can do; it is followed by a comprehension question set and a vocabulary worksheet for the word "village" is provided.
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Read Works: Dog Cage (Goulong)
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks module contains a pair of informational texts from the Philadelphia Museum of Art that describe the dog cage of Emperor Qianlong and the reception hall from China's Palace of Duke Zhao...
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Read Works: Reception Hall From the Palace of Duke Zhao (Zhaogongfu)
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks module contains a pair of informational texts from the Philadelphia Museum of Art that describe the reception hall from China's Palace of Duke Zhao (Zhaogonfu) and the dog cage of Emperor...
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Read Works: Bones on the Go!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the human skeleton and some of its stronger bones. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Day to Night
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a typical day in the life of a boy named Justin. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.